Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for the new MA in Civil Society, Non-Profit and NGO Studies at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.

Much of my current research connects with the theoretical and policy streams of Third Sector Research Centre's work programme.

My main current interests include the development of civil society and the third sector policy and practice nationally and internationally, and its relationship to other sectors and forms of socio-economic and political action (the state and the market).

Career
I worked as a researcher at the University of Kent’s Personal Social Services Research Unit and the London School of Economics, and contributed to the MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation at the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics.

During the last 20 years, I’ve accumulated wide ranging inter-disciplinary research experience in relation to the third sector, and social and health care, especially care and support for older people. Much of this research has been international and/or comparative in character.

Education
I completed my BSc in Economics at Hull, MSc inHealth Economics at York and PhD in Social Services at Kent.
 
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Teaching

Current
My main current and recent teaching responsibilities include:

Undergraduate, Canterbury campus

• The Social Welfare System in Modern Britain (S0601): lecturer
• Third Sector (S0645): convenor and lecturer
• Adult Social Care (S0678): lecturer

Postgraduate, Canterbury campus

• MAs in International Social Policy and International Social Policy and Organized Civil Society: programme director
• International Social Policy (S0872) convenor and lecturer
• Civil Society and the Third Sector (S0876): convenor and lecturer
• The Idea of Civil Society (SO838): convenor

Undergraduate, Medway campus

• Social Justice Practice (S0686): lecturer

Postgraduate, Brussels campus

• European Social Policy and Organised Civil Society (S0831): convenor and lecturer
• Key Challenges in European Social Policy (S0877): convenor and lecturer 

Research

Research interests
My main current interests include the development of civil society and the third sector policy and practice nationally and internationally, and its relationship to other sectors and forms of socio-economic and political action (the state and the market).

My international focus involves an interest both in cross national comparisons – especially in relation to public policy and social policy -  and in the role of European and international institutions in shaping the development of civil society.

I am concerned both with theory building and empirical applications in relation to all these issues. My background is in economics, but my work variously draws too upon approaches developed within political and policy analysis, sociology and political economy. I have worked, and continue to work, in collaboration with researchers from all these (and other) social science traditions.

I am also interested in social policy and the public policy making process more generally; and in the development of social care (“personal social services”) for older people (both nationally and internationally), especially with regard to regulatory and supply-side issues. I am a visiting fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Current

For the period 2008/09 to 2012/13, I am pursuing my interests in relation to civil society, the third sector, and third sector policy, under the auspices of the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), funded by ESRC, the Office for the Third Sector and the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

A good deal of this is collaborative with Professor Pete Alcock and colleagues at the University of Birmingham.  Please see the University of Kent’s Third Sector Policy Network and the Third Sector Research Centre for more details.

Past

• Commissioning & Performance Programme, UK Department of Health (not grant holder).
• ‘Third Sector European Policy' £294,000 from European Commission, February 2003 – December 2005.
• ‘Third Sector European Policy' £31,000 from ESRC (part of the European Science Foundation's European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences initiative).
• ‘The British Dimension of European third sector policy', £25,000 from Charities Aid Foundation, October 2004 – December 2006.
• CINEFOGO (‘Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship') including £11,000 Workpackage ‘political ideologies and the third sector’, January 2006 – November 2009.

Supervision
I am interested in supervising students in the topical areas and using the disciplinary approaches identified above. If you wish to study at the University of Kent, please email me to discuss further.

Publications

Recent publications (selection)

• Kendall, J. (2012) The voluntary and community sector in J. Baldock, L. Mitton, N. Manning and S. Vickerstaff (eds) Social Policy, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Kendall, J. (2012) Voluntary Welfare in P. Alcock, M. May and S. Wright (eds) The Student's Companion to Social Policy, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. 
• Alcock, P. and Kendall, J. (2011) Constituting the third sector: processes of decontestation and contention under the New Labour governments in England, VOLUNTAS, 22, 3, 450 – 469.
• Kendall, J. (2010) The limits and possibilities of third sector Europeanisation, Journal of Civil Society,6:1,39-65 , Routledge.
• Kendall, J. (2010) Bringing ideology back in: the erosion of political innocence in English third sector policy, Journal of Political Ideologies, 15:3, 241-258, Routledge.
• Kendall, J. and Taylor, M. (2009) On the interdependence between politics and policy in the shaping of English third sector policy initiative, in B. Gidron and M. Bar (eds) Policy Initiatives towards the Third Sector in International Perspective, Springer, New York.
• Kendall, J. (2009) Beyond the Compact in England: Policy Options in a Post Compact World, paper presented at ARNOVA conference, Cleveland, USA, November (copies available from the author on request.)
• Kendall, J. (2009) Handbook on Third Sector Policy in Europe: Multi-level Processes and Organised Civil Society,  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• Kendall, J., Knapp, M.R.J. and Forder, J. (2006) The third sector and social care in the Western developed world in W.W. Powell and R. Steinberg (eds) The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook 2nd Edition, Yale University Press, Connecticut.
• Kendall, J. (2003) The Voluntary Sector: Comparative Perspectives in the UK, Routledge, London.
• Kendall, J., Matosevic, T., Forder, J., Hardy, B., Knapp, M. and Ware, P. (2003) The motivations of domiciliary care providers in England: New concepts, new findings, Journal of Social Policy, October – December, 32, 4, 489 - 511.

 

Activity

Memberships

• Member of the board of Voluntas, of which I was previously editor.
• Founding member Steering Group of Voluntary Sector Studies network.
• Founder and co-ordinator of Third Sector European Policy network.
• Member of CINEFOGO network of excellence.
• Visiting Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit, LSE Health & Social Care, London School of Economics & Political Science.
• Member of the International Society for Third-sector Research.
• Member of Association for Research into Non-profit Organizations and Voluntary Action.